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On 14th June 1381, a 14-year-old king rode out to face an army of his own people. London was burning, the Tower of London had been stormed, and the Chancellor's head lay on Tower Hill.
How had England come to this?

The Peasants' Revolt 1381.

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Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.

In the light of all the news about the arrival of the Bayeux Tapestry in London, I want to go behind the headlines of the Battle of hastings, Harold & William, and find out what really happened in England in 1066.

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Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.

The film Zulu made the Battle of Rorke's Drift legendary, but it turned its most important defender into a footnote.

In the 1964 classic, James Langley Dalton appears as a quiet, effete commissariat clerk who hands out ammunition and fires not a shot, and somehow ended up with a Victoria Cross.

The real story, however, is far different, and far more exciting.

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A Strange Memorial in a British military cemetery in Malta, recalls a forgotten story from the First World War.

Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.

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Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.

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The story of Alfred before he was great.

The Viking invasion of Wessex during the winter of 870/871 - 6 great battles - and the rise of a king who would save England.

Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.

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The 1964 film, "Zulu" saw Michael Caine's debut on the big screen.
He played Lt. Gonville Bromhead, one of the 11 men awarded the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, fought in the Anglo-Zulu War, 1879.

But how close was Caine's character to the real Lt. Bromhead?

Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.

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William Bligh is remembered as history's most notorious villain — the tyrant of the Bounty, the captain whose cruelty drove his men to mutiny.

But the real story is stranger, and far more remarkable, than Hollywood ever told you.

Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.

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